I've been doing a CSI rewatch lately - albeit a very slow rewatch, there are so many seasons! - but I didn't realise there were tie-in novels. I picked this one up and gave it a go and really quite enjoyed it. The story was nice and pacy, there were lots of science details, and all the main characters had decent parts over two main cases. It was fun.

I honestly couldn't tell you if the science in here is accurate or not, having never even heard of using sulphur to cast shoe prints, for example, but it sounds plausible and Collins has a handful of sources cited in the back of the book so I'm prepared to go along with it. I liked that he took the opportunity to play with different settings as well: while most of the night shift team remained in the desert environment of Vegas, Grissom and Sara were at a remote location in New York state, working with a Canadian criminalist who had experience collecting evidence in snowy conditions. This made a nice contrast, with new scientific techniques being used and shared; I liked the one with the leaf-blower. I enjoyed the original series because of the emphasis on science, so it's nice that this tie-in novel, at least, shared the same focus.

If I come across another one in the series, I'll be sure to try that as well.